Homework AHHHHHHH!!!!!

My daughter who is in Kindergarten has homework. A packet of work is sent home on Fridays and is due back the following Thursday. My daughter hates doing homework. Just writing her name at the top of the page is an ordeal. She is in the beginning stages of learning the letters to her name. Too bad I gave her such a long name. Anyway anything involving writing always turns into a fight. Both my husband and I feel completely demoralized after a ten or fifteen minute session. The other night I tried doing a page of "s"' with my daughter. It was a complete disaster. I lost it. I got so mad/frustrated. Finally I came to the conclusion that she does not know how write an "s". That realization was so freeing. It is doubling frustrating for me as Education is my field and I feel like a double failure when I can't get my daughter to complete even the simplest of assignments. Tonight was no exception. She complained all the way to the table that she wanted to watch cartoons and then proceeded to dork around at the table causing her father to get mad. What's going to happen when the homework is actually challenging like Fractions(ahhh) or the dreaded trains leaving both coasts at different speeds.
I don't know what the lesson is for today. Maybe a school break is needed. My husband needs to take me on a vacation.

Amy